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After you have configured SRM at the protected and recovery sites, you can create and test a recovery plan
without affecting services at either site. You can also perform planned migrations or disaster recoveries by
running a recovery plan, and, if necessary, reverse the role of your two sites by performing a reprotect.
The test does not disrupt replication or any ongoing activities at the protected site. Recovery plans that suspend
local virtual machines do so for tests as well as for actual recoveries. With this exception, recovery plan tests
do not disrupt activities at either site.
NOTE Permission to test a recovery plan does not include permission to run a recovery plan. Permission to
run a recovery plan does not include permission to test a recovery plan. You must assign each permission
separately.
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“Create a Recovery Plan,” on page 67
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“Test a Recovery Plan,” on page 68
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“Run a Recovery Plan,” on page 70
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“Understanding Reprotection,” on page 71
Create a Recovery Plan
Create a recovery plan to establish how virtual machines are recovered. A basic recovery plan includes steps
that use default values to control how virtual machines in a protection group are recovered at the recovery
site. You can customize the plan to meet your needs. Recovery plans are different from protection groups in
that recovery plans indicate how virtual machines in one or more protection groups are restored at the recovery
site.
During tests, keep the virtual machine that is recovered during the test isolated from other machines in your
environment. If duplicate machines are brought on-line and begin interacting with other machines in your
production network, errors can occur. You can isolate virtual machines restored during test recoveries either
by selecting Auto, which is an isolated network, or by selecting a network that was manually created, but
which is not connected to other networks.
Procedure
1 Click Recovery Plans, and click Create.
2 On the Recovery Site page, choose the recovery site.
3 On the Select Protection Groups page, select one or more protection groups for the plan to recover, and
click Next.
You might need to expand folders to find protection groups.
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